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And yet though Erisichthons end
Hapt not vnto this foe:

To eat his fleshe, sith Bonners mates
In stie did fat him so.

Yet,viler end had he, no dout,
Then Eresichthons was:
Because their times were far vnlike,
As it did come to passe.

The one a Christian was in name,
The other Pagan prowd:
Yet in there acts of maners like,
As may bee wel avou'd.

He Ceres sought, this Ihesus Christe,
And his to bring to wrack:
He did starue, this with grease died,
Though grace from him went back.

Whereby all such as blinded were,
By fau'ring of his acts,

May see what iudgement is preparde,
To recompence their facts.

And therefore houle all Balams seed,
And weep both moste and least:
Which bear the mark (in such a light)
Of that ilfau'red beast.

But Englishe harts, which love Gods word,
Our Queen and Englishe land:

Reioyce, sith hope of foes is spoild,
By force of Gods right hand.

Sith filthy flesh doth lie in graue,
Though soule I fear be il:

Which liu'd and dide so stout a foe
To Christes death and wil.

But what though blooddy corps of his
Be forste to live ful lowe:

His blooddy facts and deeds moste vile
From hence, shall no man knowe?

Shall treason so conspir'd, shall pride,
Shall blasphemy lie dead?

No fame from earth to vpper skies,
His wickednes shall spread?

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Poliphemus, or Cyclops, was son of Neptune and Thoosa, a great monster, hauing but one eye, which was in his forehed: He was of the ile of Scicilia, into whiche Vlisses being cast by rage of tempest. and hapning on the caue of this Cyclops, lost four of his men, who would have deuour, ed the rest, if Vlisses, making him drunk, had not, with a fire-brand, bored out his eye.

+ Philonides was a great big lubber of Mileta (now called Malta) altogether so folishe and unlerned, that of him grew a prouerb, Indoctior Philonide. Some wil say, Bonner was wel lerued. I graunt, yet, in knowledge of holy scripture, like to Philonides, notwithstanding his

giuile law.

For to repent (though fauour he

Deserued had but small

At those, which now in his distresse,
Did shew him moste of all.)

But scoft and mocked those, as yet
Whiche gladly would him teache.
But, cheefly in his death, such men
As gospel soundly preache.

And therfore sith, in life of his,
No vertue was to praise :
In welth, ne wo, no spark of grace,
Whiche liu'd and spent his days,

So like a Cyclops in his den,
Deseruing no good fame:

Sith God hath cut of such a * drone,
Can we but praise his name?

And eke beseeche th' almightie Ioue,

The number to fulfil

In cutting of the rest with speed,
That bear the beast good will.

Who sure may shame at his vile race,
But more at his vile end:
And sore lament his fearful state,
Whiche now did not amend.

Though all his life he had been bent,
Yet now to stand so stout:
Denying Christe, at his last breath,
Is fearful, out of dout.

This may suffize, as God hath lent
Me grace to rule my pen:
In blasing foorth the deeds and fame,
(Before all Christian men)

Of Romaines greasy God, whose life
And death (so woorthy shame)
I haue display'd, and therfore now,
Such shal be muche to blame,

Which carp at truthe, and stomack this
That eury man can tel

Throughout this land, and others to,

Ere this whiche knew it wel.

• A drone breedeth among bees, muche like a bee; and alwayes fiues in the hiue, neuer coming out to gather hony, but stil deuoureth that whiche the bee dooth gather, and, at last, the bee and all.

God saue our Queen Elizabeth,
And bring her foes to il:

And root out those with speed from vs
Whiche bear the Pope good wil. Amen.

T. KNELL. Iu.

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COPIE OF A LETTER

Lately sent by a Gentleman*, Student in the Lawes of the Realme, to a Frende of his,

CONCERNYNG D. STORIE.

Black Letter, Octavo, containing twenty-two Pages.

ACCORDING to your request, you shal hereby vnderstand what you may truely saye and auowe vpon such questions as it seemeth you haue harde, of the late execution of D. Storie, who suffred at Tiburne the first of Iune last.

It is notorious howe euyll and vnloyally he behaued hym selfe here in Englande before he departed the realme, and howe carnest a persecutor afterward he was of all the good subjectes of Englande, hauyng cause to be in the Lowe-countreys, both before the arrest made of late by the Duse of Alua, as sence that tyme, a multitude of honest marchaunts knowe it, both Englyshe and others, and a great number haue felt it, by imprisonment, procured by hym, and by seasyng and confiscatyng of their goodes; so as there is no doubt to be made, but that he was, to his power, as earnest an enemie to the state of Englande, his naturall countrey, and the Queenes Maiesties good subiectes, as any man borne in this realme coulde be. Neuerthelesse, because, at the place of his execution before his death, he vsed long and many speeches, to mouc some of simple understandyng, or that dyd not knowe his rancor and malice agaynst the Queenes Maiestic, and the state of this realme; and for that it was not then conuenient, nor at least coulde be imagined aforehande, that he woulde haue vsed suche speeches at that tyme, and so he was suffred to speake altogether without contradiction, whereby the trueth, percase, may be made to you obscure; you shall vnderstande of what detestable crymes he was gyltie, and therewith shoulde haue ben particulerly charged at tyme of his arraignement in the Kyngs-benche, but that he craftyly and traytorously, knowying by his examination wherewith he was to be

* See the 4th Article in the Catalogue of Pamphlets.

charged, and howe much he hym selfe had confessed in the Towre; and, beyng written in certayne leaues of paper, had subscribed with his owne hande wrytyng; refused to haue any tryall made therof, alleaging that he ought not to answere, nor woulde answere, because he was subject to the Kyng of Spayne, and not subiect to the Queenes Maiestie, and the Crowne of Englande: and so, although he was charitably, earnestly, and reasonably required at his arraignment, to answere to the matters wherewith he was charged by indytement, as a borne subiect of this realme; yet he woulde not, but traytorously refused to answere thereto, in such sort, as if he had been indyted of felonie, as he was of hygh-treason, he should, for his not answeryng, haue suffred the payne of pressyng to death, which maner of iudgement is not vsed in cases of treason by the lawes of the realme, bnt was adjudged gyltie of the treasons conteyned in the indytement, as of necessitie and iustice he ought to be, for other iudgement coulde not be geuen: and so, by iustice of lawe, he was iudged to the death which he suffred. But, for that it may sérue to the satisfaction of all men, to consyder howe farre he was gyltie of the treasons conteyned in his indytement, hereafter foloweth a truc, iuste, and playne report of the matters, both wherof he was accused and examined, and which also he did confesse in the Towre.

He was to be charged, that he dyd traytorously conspire agaynst the Queenes Maiestie, with one Prestall, an Englyshe man, who was a fugityue, and principall deuisor of the first treason intended by the young Pooles xi yeres past, and therof was indyted and outlawed: and afterwarde, of late tyme, he practised an other great treason with certayne persons, wherof one disclosed the same to the Duke of Norfolke, who also verye dutifullye reuealed the same to the Queenes Maiestie, wherevpon the sayde Prestall, beyng sought for to be apprehended, fledde into Scotlande, where also he ioyned hymselfe with the Englyshe rebelles, and there attempted sundry treasons against her Maiestie, and from thence he fledde into Flaunders. With this maner of traytor had this D. Storie a continual intelligence to further his treasons, insomuche as he sayde, not long before he came into Englande, to one that for Dueties sake disclosed it, and is redy to proue it, that Prestall shoulde, or it were long, be the leader of xl thousand men into Englande, agaynst that woman which toke vpon her to be Queene; and sayde the same Storie, I woulde be God she were in the bottome of the sea; with other vile and reprochfull wordes, not meete to be reported. With which traytorous speeches he should haue ben charged, yf he woulde haue abyden Tryall accordyng to the lawes of the realme.

The sayde Storie sayde also, in the presence of two persons of English byrth, who were redy to haue charged hym therewith, yf he woulde haue stande to tryall, that he had written letters to Bruxels, that, yf the matters conteyned therein shoulde be reuealed, where he shoulde be charged therewith, he shoulde be hanged, drawen, and quartered. And immediately after this speeche he went to Bruxels with Prestall, where he and Prestall were rewarded with money; and there Prestall declared to certayne persons, redy also to haue auowed

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